athletics categories of wrestling, long jump, discus, running, javelin throwing, chariot, horse racing and the pancratium.
 The Olympic Games were considered as a sacred festival. The Games started every full moon of August and all wars had to stop.
The Romans, during the Pax Romana also participated to the Games but, in 395 AD, the Emperor Theodosius I banned them. Later, the Emperor Theodosius II destroyed the temples and stadiums of Olympia where the Olympic Games took place.
It is only in 1896 that the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin reinstituted the event in the modern world and made of the Olympic Games the biggest Athletic event of the world. The Olympic Games first took place in Athens in the restored “Roman Stadium” (Kalimarmaro).
In 2004, after 104 years, the Olympic Games are going to return to their birth country. Greece will welcome athletes from 200 countries for 17 days of hard competition.
The Athens 2004 games will take place in August.
For more information about Greece Athens 2004, visit
the official site:
Web: www.athens2004.com
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The Olympic Games were born in Ancient Greece and were held in honour of Zeus, the father of the Gods. The first Olympic Games took place in Olympia for the first time in the 7th century B.C. According to the myth, they were founded by Pelops, the King of Peloponnese. Olympia is considered as one of the most important sanctuaries of antiquity.
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